Ability to detect zend multibyte mode at runtime

Submitted:

2010-07-15 17:31 UTC

Modified:

2010-11-25 15:55 UTC

Votes:	2
Avg. Score:	5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:	2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:	1 (50.0%)
Same OS:	2 (100.0%)

From:

php-bugs at thequod dot de

Assigned:

kalle (profile)

Status:

Closed

Package:

PHP options/info functions

PHP Version:

5.3.3RC3

OS:

Private report:

CVE-ID:

None

[2010-07-15 17:31 UTC] php-bugs at thequod dot de

Description:
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I could not find (useful) documentation for the "enable-zend-multibyte" configure option.

It is mentioned to be a requirement for declare(encoding) [1], but
a) apparently the Windows builds do not have it enabled (according to phpinfo output
b) I cannot see how this can get detected on runtime (e.g. via some defined function) - I need to know if declare(encoding) processing is being done or not (and convert source files manually if declare(encoding) is ignored).


[1] http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.declare.php

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[2010-10-23 15:19 UTC] kalle@php.net

-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: kalle

[2010-10-23 15:19 UTC] kalle@php.net

Hi, sadly the multibyte mode isn't exposed, so the only way to check for it is by sniffing phpinfo() which is really hacky. I wrote up a small script for you to see what I mean by hacky:
<?php
	$zend_multibyte = false;

	ob_start();
	phpinfo(INFO_GENERAL);

	$buffer = ob_get_clean();
	$pos 	= strpos($buffer, 'Zend Multibyte');
	$buffer	= substr($buffer, $pos);

	if(PHP_SAPI == 'cli')
	{
		$buffer		= ltrim($buffer);
		$zend_multibyte = (trim(substr($buffer, 25, strpos($buffer, "\n") - 25)) == 'enabled');
	}
	else
	{
		$zend_multibyte = (trim(strip_tags(substr($buffer, 28, strpos($buffer, "</tr>") - 28))) == 'enabled');
	}

	unset($buffer, $pos);

	var_dump($zend_multibyte);
?>

As for the documentation, I have added a note on the declare() construct's page that its "impossible" to determine whether the build have multibyte support or not.

[2010-10-23 17:46 UTC] php-bugs at thequod dot de

Thank you!

Can you forward / re-assign the bug maybe so that it is possible to detect this during runtime, please?
Please leave a short reply, if you won't do it, so I will do this.

[2010-10-23 19:14 UTC] kalle@php.net

-Summary: Please document --enable-zend-multibyte configure option +Summary: Ability to detect zend multibyte mode at runtime -Status: Closed +Status: Re-Opened -Type: Documentation Problem +Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Documentation problem +Package: PHP options/info functions

[2010-10-23 19:14 UTC] kalle@php.net

Done, I can add such a constant to the 5.3 branch and trunk sometime this weekend

[2010-11-11 02:44 UTC] Kalle@php.net

-Status: Re-Opened +Status: Closed

[2010-11-11 02:44 UTC] Kalle@php.net

Added, this will be available in PHP 5.3.4+ ;-)

[2010-11-11 18:19 UTC] php-bugs at thequod dot de

Thanks a lot!

[2010-11-25 15:55 UTC] cataphract@php.net

Someone on internals requested I added this here:

«The problem in 5.3 is not as grave as the bug report paints it, you don't need to sniff phpinfo() to see whether PHP was compiled with --enable-zend-multibyte. You can use, for instance:
 
key_exists("detect_unicode", ini_get_all())»